this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
1792 points (100.0% liked)

Science Memes

15822 readers
2611 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
1792
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Because he is not your run-of-the-mill tech billionaire.

He's an asshole, yes, but you don't see Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos or anyone else make the kind of big moves he does.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Big moves like losing billions on Twitter? Or producing an ugly truck that does nothing it was promised to do for twice the promised price? Or getting a government contract to build 50 THOUSAND electric vehicle chargers nationwide then firing literally everyone working on actually building them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Big moves like founding SpaceX

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because they don’t chatter in like a sub-70 IQ Harpy wanting attention?

Musk is a fraud. He was never accepted into a PhD program. He lied about his physics degree and was awarded one while not attending after daddy gave money to the school. He doesn’t know shit about science, engineering, or literally anything except how to be an edgelord.

Dude is a fucking loser and companies succeed in spite of him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What about it? Elon just owns it, nothing more. Man is a fucking moron. Just look at twitter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Which Elon has contributed nothing. He isn’t an engineer, he isn’t a scientist, he doesn’t even understand free body diagrams. He is fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh right, I forgot that funding and companies manifest solely from engineers' desires to build things. Silly me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Keep moving those goalposts to make Elon look good. Maybe someday he will matter.

Dude is a fraud, an Edison. Stop worshipping pieces of shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

big moves

did you mean boner moves? makes more sense re: musk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

the miracle of Spacex is Gwynne Shotwell* managing elon so well that he hasn't fucked it up yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe her name is Gwynne, not Gwen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Gwen Shotwell

I stand corrected, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh thank you, I've been wondering how spaceX ever succeeded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes. None of those others listed founded aerospace companies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blue Origin has yet to deliver a single gram of payload to orbit. They likely will in the next year or so, but they're still way behind SpaceX, or even Rocket Lab in that respect.